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Negative existential construction

Author

Chiara Naccarato

Published

August 19, 2025

Non-standard marking of negated subjects in existential constructions is a common feature in the Russian speech of bilinguals. A tendency to use nominative subjects instead of Standard Russian genitive of negation has been noted for several varieties of bilingual Russian.

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